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Is there any established lore or scenarios regarding the Spanish Civil War? I can't find all that much even though it seems like it would have a lot of potential as a setting.
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DG friendlies in the International Brigades fight Nazi cultists embedded in the Condor Legion kind of thing? Been done a hundred times I am sure, but fun pulpy stuff is fun.
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Oct 12, 2018 13:21
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Soldiers of Pen and Ink for Trail of Cthulhu is a Spanish Civil War scenario.
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Oct 12, 2018 13:43
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We were talking about this on the Night at the Opera discord maybe a month ago: Several factions on the Republican side really hated the Catholic church, plundering and destroying maybe 20,000 churches, cathedrals and tombs throughout the war. So the players go out into the very rural countryside to knock over a church that the local lore says is full of hidden treasure and priceless artifacts. They find it guarded by a mixture of strange clerics and half-insane Fascist paramilitaries. It's only after they break through the defenses and get to the crypt beneath that they realize the horrible truth: The Nationalists weren't trying to keep anyone out, they were trying to keep something else in
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Oct 12, 2018 16:59
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So Limetown is back after three years and I JUST realized that it's perfect Delta Green stuff even if there's no supernatural component.
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Oct 30, 2018 16:09
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I assume this hasn't been posted yet? https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Tentacles5 Pretty cool bundle, at least Things we leave behind is worth the minimum price. The second Stygian book you get in the higher tier is full of very short scenarios (and one long adventure), what I've skimmed so far looks good (Quachil Uttaus!)
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Oct 30, 2018 20:06
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Fellas is it racist to have the Basque language be developed from ancient Hyperborean? Like there was a small number of refugees that took over the local neolithic tribes and the result was a new language totally unrelated to Europe's families?
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Nov 8, 2018 05:42
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Kavak posted:Fellas is it racist to have the Basque language be developed from ancient Hyperborean? Like there was a small number of refugees that took over the local neolithic tribes and the result was a new language totally unrelated to Europe's families? a little but nobody's going to mind unless you're playing with people from the region. You could just make something up if you're concerned.
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Nov 8, 2018 05:45
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Kavak posted:Fellas is it racist to have the Basque language be developed from ancient Hyperborean? Like there was a small number of refugees that took over the local neolithic tribes and the result was a new language totally unrelated to Europe's families?
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Nov 8, 2018 07:19
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Nessus posted:Why does it have to be a new language? Declare that Basque is a dialect of Hyperborean and if you can speak Basque (and read the script) you can read Hyperborean ancient tomes. I assume things would've drifted over the aeons to the point where there's similarities but they're not truly intelligible, like Old English and modern English. Also Basque uses the Latin alphabet.
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Nov 8, 2018 17:06
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Also Basque has no (living) relatives. It's the last surviving pre-Indo-European language.
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Nov 8, 2018 20:07
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Delta Green Shotgun Scenario Contest is live. Using a much better voting system than before. http://fairfieldproject.wikidot.com/shotgun-contest-announcement
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LatwPIAT posted:I've been looking at these on and off for most of the day: Seems almost like you could combine it with a hypercube idea  in order to create a setup that is internally consistent but really hard to track mentally in your head. The rppr guys did a burner scenario that leveraged one, and while the repeating variations of a single room was great you don't exactly have to hold to that, just make sure you've got the number of connections for each room and keep careful track of where they are. Been playing cultist simulator a decent amount lately, and a lot of the writing seems like it'd be really solid to seed scenario ideas from. My group had some people move so don't have people to play with, but having an intro scenario be "go investigate this commune" with 1 agent+friendlies, along with these instructions would be great. Make the actual thing going on be whatever makes sense for you or the campaign you're planning. Leave it up to the agent to explain to the other players why they need to follow these rules, but make sure the friendlies have solid reasons to do a favor to the program. code:ZypherIM fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Nov 18, 2018 |
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Nov 18, 2018 04:02
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My Masks reprint showed up today. I may never actually run it, but there it will sit on my shelf. It's pretty impressive really. Split up into 2 hardcovers, some crazy art throughout, details on playing as Pulp or normal 7e. Came with something like 100 pages of handouts and maps all printed out and ready to go. 
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Nov 25, 2018 01:57
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ritorix posted:My Masks reprint showed up today. I may never actually run it, but there it will sit on my shelf. Yeah, it's nice. I'm thrilled to finally have the hard copy so I'm not trying to jump back & forth in the .pdf while running it.
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Nov 25, 2018 03:44
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I am so keen to get that, but it's like 200 bucks delivered to my country. How are the handouts and DM screen?
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Nov 25, 2018 07:42
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Happy to take some pictures later today/tomorrow if it'd help
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Nov 25, 2018 20:15
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More DG content SCENARIOS Pearls of Wisdom - 1963 - Agents smuggle artifacts out of Xá Lợi Pagoda, ahead of the Diem government’s raids The Fifth Head of CHRYSALIS - A vacation to the Dominican Republic conceals a dirty secret Hot Air - Florida man robs 7-Eleven, eats 20 hot dogs, melts into a puddle CUSTOM PROFESSIONS Tanker - Exploit Delta Green’s laughably broken vehicle ramming rules by running over Dread Cthulhu with an Abrams for 120% lethality NPCS Archimedes “Arch” Brabrand - Case Officer who can get you off the hook, for a price Dr Genosha Geller - The Program’s Head Head-louse THREATS Crawling Chaos, I’m CIA - A trio of CIA operatives plot a coup to install a USA friendly Moon Beast government in the Dreamlands The Lovefeast Mennonites - An insular Anabaptist community in rural Manitoba teaches its members to love the skin they’re in. All posted to my DG page
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mellonbread posted:Tanker - Exploit Delta Green’s laughably broken vehicle ramming rules by running over Dread Cthulhu with an Abrams for 120% lethality Great now I want to do a oneshot where it's Fury but set in and around a mobility killed Abrams and against monsters and cultists in a dusty Central Asian fartbox.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Great now I want to do a oneshot where it's Fury but set in and around a mobility killed Abrams and against monsters and cultists in a dusty Central Asian fartbox. You write it I'll run it
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Owlbear Camus posted:Great now I want to do a oneshot where it's Fury but set in and around a mobility killed Abrams and against monsters and cultists in a dusty Central Asian fartbox.
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Nov 28, 2018 10:29
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How much/little would a MJ-6 subproject know about the people above them? Would they (Or at least the guy in charge) know the terms Pluto, MJ-6, MAJESTIC, etc.?
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Kavak posted:How much/little would a MJ-6 subproject know about the people above them? Would they (Or at least the guy in charge) know the terms Pluto, MJ-6, MAJESTIC, etc.? Beyond what's relevant to whatever's being researched, I'd assume most of the people working on the subproject would know next to nothing about the truth. They're probably just told a highly rationalized version of what they're researching and given a bunch of explicit and implicit threats about keeping their mouths shut. However, that doesn't mean there aren't "office gossip" that hint towards what's going (i.e. seemingly high-powered or influential people randomly asking the researchers questions, hushed brags about what happened when whoever "messed around with" whatever's being researched). Edit: What it really comes down to is how dangerous whatever's being researched is expected to be and whether it's for the public's or Majestic's use. MizPiz fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Dec 13, 2018 |
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Dec 13, 2018 09:22
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mellonbread posted:Crawling Chaos, I’m CIA - A trio of CIA operatives plot a coup to install a USA friendly Moon Beast government in the Dreamlands This is funny as hell
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I'm not sure if this is the right place for it but BBC Radio 4 recently put out a modern-day adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward in the style of a true crime podcast, and it's extremely worth listening to if you can get access: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06t51fv. I particularly liked the way they embedded the plot into 20th century occultism instead of 19th century!
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So, besides the stuff in the quick start rules, what would be good to run for a first time keeper and players?
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Dec 17, 2018 23:03
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xanthan posted:So, besides the stuff in the quick start rules, what would be good to run for a first time keeper and players? quote:nside This Box
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Dec 17, 2018 23:08
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That is dope af. I'm snagging the hell out that. Thank you!!
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drat that's cool. Little starter sets like that are great!
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Dec 18, 2018 02:58
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There's a pretty fun movie up on Netflix right now called Gehenna. It's not explicitly mythos-related, but it ticks a suspicious amount of the boxes you'd see in a Call of Cthulhu adventure.
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moths posted:There's a pretty fun movie up on Netflix right now called Gehenna. It's not explicitly mythos-related, but it ticks a suspicious amount of the boxes you'd see in a Call of Cthulhu adventure. I'm watching it now and actively turning it into a one-shot in my head.
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I'm hoping to run a campaign set in either UK or Canada just after WW2. Initial conceit for the players is this is gonna be a noir-detective campaign with lots of gangs and cops and poo poo, but I'm gonna try to introduce creepy poo poo slowly. Hoping to use the Trail of Cthulhu ruleset unless y'all know anything more appropriate. If you know any 1940s/50s adventures (either Mythos, paranormal or mundane) I'm all ears.
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Kafka Syrup posted:I'm hoping to run a campaign set in either UK or Canada just after WW2. Initial conceit for the players is this is gonna be a noir-detective campaign with lots of gangs and cops and poo poo, but I'm gonna try to introduce creepy poo poo slowly. Hoping to use the Trail of Cthulhu ruleset unless y'all know anything more appropriate. If you know any 1940s/50s adventures (either Mythos, paranormal or mundane) I'm all ears. You could something about an outlaw biker gang founded by WWII veterans who found some Nazi occult stuff. Might be a bit anachronistic since I don't think bikers had the connection to neo-nazis back then like they do now, but it definitely fits the canon enough.
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I feel like the 50s is a little early for neo-nazis considering there were still actual nazis running around
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MizPiz posted:You could something about an outlaw biker gang founded by WWII veterans who found some Nazi occult stuff. Might be a bit anachronistic since I don't think bikers had the connection to neo-nazis back then like they do now, but it definitely fits the canon enough. The bikers themselves wouldn't have to be Nazis. They could just as easily be vets who miss the thrill of combat and the personal power they held flying fighters and bombers, and are looking to recreate that utalizing occult artifacts while maybe making some extra cash on the side (this is the actual history of many real biker gangs, including Hell's Angels, if you replace 'occult artifacts' with drugs)
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Don’t let people be surprised by the genre of a campaign.
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:I feel like the 50s is a little early for neo-nazis considering there were still actual nazis running around Sadly, those actual nazis were busy creating neo-nazis.
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:I feel like the 50s is a little early for neo-nazis considering there were still actual nazis running around The American Nazi Party was founded in 1959. American Neo-Nazis are kind of originally a response to the Civil Rights Movement in a sense if you have to look for a cause outside of them being garbage people. EDIT: For clarification, Neo-Nazis in America weren't originally some kind of Apt Pupil situation, they were founded by extreme anti-communists who deep dived into fascist literature. George Lincoln Rockwell pretty much came up with American Nazism on his own through his far right beliefs taking him into fascist and anti-Semitic literature. All of this is part of the conservative backlash to the collapse of Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, and the decline of traditional institutions in the postwar years. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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Golden Bee posted:Don’t let people be surprised by the genre of a campaign. I think with the right Dungeon Master I'd be delighted by the surprise and having a tonal shift breadcrumbed out like that. I'm totally down to be Dusk Till Dawned. I think it would be important to know your audience, though, and have a reasonable expectation they like both genres you're sliding the fader bar between. Reminds me how I want to run a game set in the Aliens universe where the players are all Colonial Marines or plausible civilian support characters, send them off on the classic Colony Distress mission assuming it's the ol' face huggy bois, but (long story short) turns out it's a Predator or three. Not quite as big a tonal shift obvs. IDK what system to use for it, maybe nWoD?
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Golden Bee posted:Don’t let people be surprised by the genre of a campaign. Using the Trail of Cthulhu rules is a pretty big genre clue, but this is good advice. Bikers with artefact sounds good enough, without involving neo-nazis. The artefact might just be some odd "good luck charm" a guy found in a German bunker and has carried around since, without any knowledge of its mythos significance. You could probably tie it into the amulet from The Hound, if you wanted to go directly Lovecraft.
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